P22A:
The Rite of Spring: The Changing Seasons on Titan I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Convener:  Scott G Edgington, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Robert M. Nelson, Planetary Science Institute, Pasadena, CA, United States and Rosaly M C Lopes, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States; JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Unveiling Titan’s Mid-Latitude Surface Regions
Anezina Solomonidou1,2, Athena Coustenis2, Rosaly M C Lopes1, Sebastien Rodriguez3, Mathieu Hirtzig2,4, Katrin Stephan5, Christophe Sotin1, Pierre Drossart2, Stephane Le Mouelic6, Kenneth J Lawrence1, Michael J Malaska1, Ralf Jaumann5, Robert Hamilton Brown7 and Emmanuel Bratsolis8, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (3)AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, (4)Fondation “La main à la pâte”, Montrouge, France, (5)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (6)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (7)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (8)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
10:35 AM
 
Monitoring the Seasonal Evolution of the North and South Polar Vortex on Titan during 10 Years with Cassini/Vims
Stephane Le Mouelic1, Batiste Rousseau1, Sebastien Rodriguez2, Thomas Cornet3, Christophe Sotin4, Jason W Barnes5, Robert Hamilton Brown6, Bonnie J Buratti4, Kevin H Baines4, Roger Nelson Clark7 and Philip D Nicholson8, (1)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (2)AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, (3)European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)USGS, Denver, CO, United States, (8)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
10:50 AM
 
Evolution of Titan's Seas and Lakes during Northern Spring
Christophe Sotin1, Kenneth J Lawrence2, Stephane Le Mouelic3, Shannon MacKenzie4, Jason W Barnes4, Robert Hamilton Brown5, Thomas Cornet6, Sebastien Rodriguez7, Kevin H Baines1, Bonnie J Buratti2, Roger Nelson Clark8, Phil d Nicholson9 and Jason M Soderblom10, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Nantes, Nantes, France, (4)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (7)AIM - CEA/CNRS/Uni. P7, Gif/Yvette, France, (8)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (9)Cornell University, Dept. of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (10)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
11:05 AM
 
First Cassini Radio Science Bistatic Scattering Observation of Titan's Northern Seas
Essam A Marouf1, Arvydas J Kliore2, Nicole J Rappaport3, Richard G French4, Paul J Schinder5, Aseel Anabtawi2, Kwok K Wong1, John W Armstrong2, Sami W Asmar2, F Michael Flasar5, Luciano Iess6, Colleen McGhee4, Andrew F Nagy7, Paolo Tortora8, Elias Barbinis2, Dustin Buccino2 and Daniel S Kahan2, (1)San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Formerly with JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Univ. La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, (7)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (8)Universita di Bologna, DIEM - II Faculty of Engineering, FORLI, I- 47121, Italy
11:20 AM
 
Titan’s Surface at 2.2-Cm Wavelength: Results and Interpretations through the First Ten Years of Observation By Cassini
Michael A Janssen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alice Anne Le Gall, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, Alexander G Hayes Jr, Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, Rosaly M C Lopes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael J Malaska, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
11:35 AM
 
Titan’s Magic Island: Transient features in a Titan sea
Jason Daniel Hofgartner1, Alexander G Hayes Jr2, Jonathan I Lunine1, Howard A Zebker3, Bryan W Stiles4, Christophe Sotin5, Jason W Barnes6, Elizabeth P Turtle7, Kevin H Baines8, Robert Hamilton Brown9, Bonnie J Buratti8, Roger Nelson Clark10, Pierre Encrenaz11, Randolph L Kirk12, Alice Anne Le Gall13, Rosaly M C Lopes5, Ralph D Lorenz14, Michael J Malaska15, Karl L Mitchell4, Philip D Nicholson1, Philippe Paillou16, Jani Radebaugh17, Stephen D Wall5 and Charles A Wood10, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (7)JHU Applied Physics Lab., Laurel, MD, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (11)Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, Paris, France, (12)USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (13)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (14)JHU / APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (15)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (16)University of Bordeaux 1, Talence, France, (17)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
11:50 AM
 
Kraken Mare bathymetry and composition from Cassini RADAR
Marco Mastrogiuseppe Sr1,2, Alexander G Hayes Jr1, Alice Anne Le Gall3, Domenico Casarano4, Jason Daniel Hofgartner5, Ralph D Lorenz6, Jonathan I Lunine5, Claudia Notarnicola7, Valerio Poggiali2, Ozgur Karatekin8 and Roberto Seu2, (1)Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Università La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Rome, Italy, (3)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (4)CNR-IRPI National Research Council, Bari, Italy, (5)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (6)JHU / APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)eurac, Bolzano, Italy, (8)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
12:05 PM
 
Modeling and Observing the Role of Wind-Waves in Lake-Climate Interactions on Titan using the T104 Flyby of Kraken Mare
Alexander G Hayes Jr, Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, Ralph D Lorenz, JHU / APL, Laurel, MD, United States, Howard A Zebker, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Mark A Donelan, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Ozgur Karatekin, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, Marco Mastrogiuseppe Sr, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Alice Anne Le Gall, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, Jason Daniel Hofgartner, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Pierre Encrenaz, Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, Paris, France and Valerio Poggiali, Università La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Rome, Italy
 
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